Canfest-2023 | 20th National Theatre Festival

“Canfest-2023” i.e.,20^th National Theatre Festival (19^th to 28^thMarch’ 2023) 10 days festival, is basically a conglomeration of Ten different theater troupes & repertoire of few selected Indian Directors from the country & state as well, to exhibit their forms & patterns.

This festival has been organizing since last Twenty years (i.e., from 2004) & the production of notable thespians of the country has already been invited to this platform. Some of them to cite are Late. K.N. Panikkar, Mr. M.K. Raina, Late Alakh Nandan, Late Mr.Bansi Kaul, Prof. Devendra Raj Ankur, Late Habib Tanvir, Mr. Rudra Prasad Sengupta, Mr. Bivas Chakraborty, Prof. (Mrs.) Tripurari Sharma, Mr. Nadira Babar had already staged their show in course of days.

 “Canfest” is always being held with a theme every year. For example in yesteryears, we have organized festivals with theme like “Women Directors’ Festival”, “Production of Young Directors”, “The places not touched and the people not called”. etc.

This year in “Canfest-2023, there will be performance of (10) ten plays in different Indian languages. This year emphasis will be given for presentation of plays based on Indian & western classics.  This year Directors like Sanjay Uppadhaya, Suryamohan Kulshreshta, Mr. Mushtaq Kak have given their consent to stage their plays in this festival.  Apart from that, discussions & seminars will be conducted within that period for interaction. In this occasion, we do invite many eminent Theatre Directors, Playwrights, and designers in the inauguration & valedictory ceremony as guests of the festival . We do also felicitate one senior theatre personality from National Level  and State level for his lifetime contribution for theatre.